When the Gallipoli campaign was first conceived of during the First World War by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, it was seen as a bold but viable plan to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war and allow the Entente to focus its forces more heavily on the Western Front.
What followed was a series of completely avoidable errors that turned what would arguably have been a workable plan into one of the great Allied disasters of the First World War, despite the ANZACs and other Allied forces fighting valiantly on the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Fast forward to the present day: there is another war in the Middle East, and as it stands, it’s not going as planned.
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